Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the four State Department officials placed on administrative leave by Hillary Clinton after the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi do not deserve any formal disciplinary action and has asked them to come back to work at the State Department starting Tuesday.

Last December, Clintons staff told four mid-level officials to clean out their desks and hand in their badges after the release of the report of its own internal investigation into the Benghazi attack, compiled by the Administrative Review Board led by former State Department official Tom Pickering and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Ret. Adm. Mike Mullen. Those four officials have been in legal and professional limbo, not fired but unable to return to their jobs, for eight months until today.

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Maxwell, the only official from the State Departments Near Eastern Affairs bureau to lose his job over the Benghazi attack, told The Daily Beast Monday he received a memo from the State Departments human resources department informing him his administrative leave status has been lifted and he should report for duty Tuesday morning.

No explanation, no briefing, just come back to work. So I will go in tomorrow, Maxwell said. I know what Hosni Mubarak must feel.

Maxwell previously told The Daily Beast that the reasons for his administrative leave designation had never been explained to him. He contended that he had little role in Libya policy and no involvement whatsoever in the events leading up to the Benghazi attack.

I don’t side with Kerry, here, anymore than I side with Clinton. I have no doubt that these folks SHOULD have lost their jobs and STILL should be looking for work.

This is all part of a carefully crafted ploy to make it appear that, as far as Benghazi and zero go, there was no harm, no foul!! If no one was disciplined, then obviously nothing happened at Benghazi!!

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posted on 08/19/2013 8:25:07 PM PDT
by DustyMoment
(Congress - another name for the American politburo!!)

Now that Maxwell guy— THAT is a sense of humor— “know what Mubarak must feel like”-— inasmuch as the rumor mill is saying Mubarak is “baaaaack”. But very reminiscent of the WH Travel office BS. Hillary is a truly incompetent petulant and petty biotch with delusions of higher capability.

The 46-page report by Republicans on five House committees cites a request from then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz, sent last March 28 to Clinton asking for additional security resources, and a response dated last April 19 that bears Clintons signature.The April cable from the State Department, according to the GOP report, acknowledged then-Ambassador Cretz formal request for additional security assets but ordered the withdrawal of security elements to proceed as planned.

PS: Note first video and especially rep M. McCaul's last question which is not given time.

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posted on 08/20/2013 12:43:05 AM PDT
by ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)

There are no meaningful consequences for wrongdoing in this administration. The worst that could ever happen is a few extra days of vacation. Maybe followed a promotion, if you did something really nasty.

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posted on 08/20/2013 8:21:17 AM PDT
by BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)

"The problem really is that there arent enough prison cells for all these criminals."

Start using gov't buildings in DC (and maybe Detroit) that are empty and set those aside for government criminals. It doesn't have to be wretched but there are a lot of government criminals that need to do some time.

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posted on 08/20/2013 2:57:48 PM PDT
by hummingbird
(THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)

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